When I got my car I was a little interested in the fact that the oil filter was at the top of the engin and upside down from normal positions. This made it impossible to partially fill the filter before putting it on. One thing I would do is fill it up, let the filter soak the oil, then empty it out into the funnel in the crankcase. Then at least the filter element was already wet. However shopping at Advance I saw the "Fram Tough Guard" filters, they have a drainback stop valve, so when the oil goes in it can't come back out with out the pressure of a running engine. This is great for the car in two aspects. First, when you do an oil change if you do what I said above, only a few drops will go out into the funnel, the rest is retained. Secondly when the car is parked, oil is still in the filter which makes for better starts. They are also rated for 99% multi-pass efficiency. I don't know if the regular orange Fram filters also have the anti-drainback valve. I use the tough guard and Pennzoil stop and go oil, because I drive a lot of stop and go short distances. Hopefully this summer after school I will get some nice highway mileage. Any other opinions just post them up.
